Science & Industry

Give it a try.

you're better off mining in a hulk. they can tank rats in 0.0 and probably warp out faster then a rokh.

Oh, the High Sec Gravimetric Sites with Hedbergite, Hemorphite, and Jaspet suck, I guess is what you are saying ????

No, low sec mining in a Rokh is probably not a good idea. It doesn't really buy you anything in low sec. In low sec there is no concorde, so they can just sit there and keep pounding on you until you die, so a Rokh with mining lasers is no harder to kill than an exhumer or barge it just takes a little bit longer. Solo they'll warp scramble you and call in a friend or two maybe, and that'll be it.

A hulk, however, is probably an equally bad option. It's too expensive to risk in low sec.

What I would recommend using for low sec mining is a covetor. Something you could bear to lose, because you will lose it.

Solo mining in low sec is very tough, but doable. You need to be really, really, on your game. You should pick a place to do it that is deep into low sec. Study the map and find a swath of low sec where most systems are empty most of the time. The Aridia region might be a good choice. Try to only mine when nobody is in local.

When somebody is in local, you should identify two warp points on opposite sides of the area. Align to one, then before you go out of range of the roid, align to the other to double back. Constantly watch your dscan for combat probes, and any time you see a probe, dock. Any time you see a ship come into your belt, warp to whichever warp point you're aligned to. Warp immediately, don't wait for your drones to return to your bay. Or, if that is all too much of a hassle, just wait them out in the station.

Bring a combat ship with you for clearing rats. Doesn't need to be much.

One of your main challenges will be transporting your stuff out to the system you want to mine in and transporting your minerals back to someplace you can sell them. If you're deep enough into low sec to be somewhat alone, you are going to have a long dangerous trip there and back. One option is to find shortcuts through wormhole space. If you don't do that, take your time. Have an alt scout ahead for gate camps. If you haven't, I would consider training for transport ships and astrometrics to ease your transportation woes.

You might want to bring out enough supplies to stay out there for a while. Two or three covetors, an indy, a scounting alt, crystals, drones, etc. Kind of set up a little base in a station way out there so you don't need to be moving back and forth all the time. It's the moving there and back that is the riskiest probably, so do your move at a time when there are not that many players online, or do it through a wormhole shortcut.

You might also consider installing a jump clone in one of the stations from your starter corp before you go. That way once you get the stuff you need out to the low sec system where you're mining, you can jump back to hi sec when you don't feel like dealing with low sec and vice versa. That is nice if your system is crowded one day and you want to play. You can just jump back to hi sec for a while instead of doing something risky.

I solo low sec mined for a while. It was actually really fun. But, to be honest, I lost money doing it. I was fairly new then. I imagine I could make money doing it now. But there are a lot of dangers in low sec. If you haven't spent much time there yet, you have a long learning curve full of lost ships ahead of you. But in my opinion, it is way worth it. Ultimately non-hi-sec is more profitable, and more importantly, 100 times more fun. Just fly ships you won't be upset to lose and every time you die sit down and think through what you could have done to avoid dying, and it'll all be good.

You'll just die slower, but die you will.
Probe out hisec gravs or join a null-sec corp if you want to mine there.

Thanks for these messages. They have given me food for thought.

I was thinking about having some missile launchers on the Rokh to fight back though it would cost me some ISK in terms of revenue.

I will go away and pnder my options. I may try the Corvete option again as that was good even though I kept blowing up every five minutes but I am sure that, in the meantime, I can save up for a Rokh.

One thing I would love to do in Hi-Sec in belts full of bots is to get in there in Rokh and drain the place for myself.

Thnaks again, I am going to print all this out, save that fit, and then ponder on it all.

Unfortunately in low sec, fighting back as a solo player is very rarely an option even in a fully pvp fit ship. They will most often bring multiple ships. As a solo player, not getting caught in the first place is really your one and only line of defense.

IKf you seriously have a thing about wanting to be a miner

Dont mine in lowsec or null - or you will die unless you are in a 00 alliance

If you want to mine don;t focus your skills towards a mining Rokh, it may have more laser points but its not designed for mining and your yield will be low (as their are no mining bonuses and you skills will be low where they can increase yield). Instead focus your skills towards an exhumer - ie ultimately aim for a hulk

If you still want to mine then search out highsec sites, and if these aren't enough look for unoccupied wormholes, potentially you may look to joing an industrial 00 alliance (though normally they will expect you can fly exhumer at the least) or a wormhole corp

you can also use Black Frog to move your ship and stuff out of there. it's 45m per trip tho!

Of course you don't have to fit 3 MLUs and 8 Mining lasers, and therefore the 2 CPUs

Additionally if you're mining why fit the LIF rocket boosters?

You could fit 6 lasers and 2 mlu's, and then fit a better tank and 2 large smartbombs...

And carry ewar drones ..